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Headword:
Kerameikos
Adler number: kappa,1354
Translated headword: Kerameikos, Ceramicus, Potters' Quarter
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place in
Athens, where those who died in battle were buried, as Menekles and Kallistrates[1] say in writings about the Athenians in this manner. There is also a deme [named]
Kerameikos.[2] On every side are
stelai for those who were buried at public expense, which contain inscriptions [specifying] where each man died.
Anacharsis the Scythian, a philosopher, invented the anchor and the potter's wheel.[3]
Greek Original:Kerameikos: topos Athênêsin, entha hoi en polemôi anairoumenoi ethaptonto, hôs Meneklês kai Kallistratês peri Athênaiôn sungrammasi phasin houtôs. esti de kai dêmos Kerameikos. eisi de enthen kai enthen stêlai epi tois dêmosiai tethammenois, echousai epigraphas, pou hekastos apethanen. hoti Anacharsis Skuthês, philosophos, heuren ankuran kai ton kerameikon trochon.
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Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; definition; economics; geography; military affairs; philosophy; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Norita Dobyns on 24 February 2004@19:37:09.
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